[CentOS] Upgrade perl; package conflict

[Tim Verhoeven]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 8:55 AM,  <centos at bartbaars.nl> wrote:
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> Transaction Check Error:
>  file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/pod/perldiag.pod from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/c2ph.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/cpan.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/dprofpp.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/enc2xs.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/find2perl.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/h2ph.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/h2xs.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/instmodsh.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/libnetcfg.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/perlbug.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/perlcc.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/perldiag.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/perlivp.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/piconv.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/pl2pm.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2html.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2latex.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2man.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2text.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2usage.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/podchecker.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/podselect.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/prove.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/psed.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/pstruct.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/s2p.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/splain.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2
>  file /usr/share/man/man1/xsubpp.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2

This probably means that there is some other none-CentOS package that
has a dependency on the old perl package. Do you have any special perl
packages installed ?

Regards,
Tim

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Tim Verhoeven - tim.verhoeven.be at gmail.com - 0479 / 88 11 83

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